(May 24, 2016 at 5:36 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(May 24, 2016 at 5:29 pm)AAA Wrote: Well like I said, I know that in humans it branches many times which is essential to its function. I tried google scholar looking for a paper on the extralaryngeal divisions of the giraffe, but I had no luck. If you know where I can find decent information, let me know.
Anyways, to make my point, here is a picture I found showing the divisions of the laryngeal nerve in humans.
Notice all the divisions as it moves back up. These divisions are necessary for breathing and circulation. I bet that this occurs in the giraffe too. If it didn't go down and go under the aortic arch and come back up, then how would it branch off to all these targets?
Thanks for the video. You can even see in it that on the way back up, the nerve branches off multiple times. I trust the knowledge of the anatomist, but they didn't even acknowledge the branches coming off. 1:54, 2:09, 2:30, 2:39. Every time it gives you a close-up you can see an additional branch. Are these branches supposed to just be unimportant? And how has this nerve only been dissected twice?? Are we sure that this anatomy is not essential to its function?